Two teachers in Cumberland County are offering up their classrooms as testing ground for new technology. Chromebook pilot tests open source learning resources.Google is now offering users in its beta-channel the opportunity to preview features that are currently in development for Chrome OS, including a new launcher and a new look to the overall system. Google is building a next generation interface for its Chrome OS operating system, which powers Chromebook laptop computers. Google Chrome OS Set to Get New Launcher.
The beta channel of its Chrome operating system has just gotten a new “Chrome Launcher 2.0″, and the most outstanding feature is the presence of Google Now. Now Google is teasing the next product to get a Google Now makeover, one that is probably long overdue anyway. The last one to get card-y was YouTube, where the cards will replace the older popups that relay additional information about videos. Google has been increasingly pushing its Google Now virtual assistant and its “cards” convention across its different services and apps. It’s Chrome OS’ turn for the Google Now upgrade.Look Out World! China Is Giving Ubuntu GNU/Linux A Tryįor ages, China has been a world-leader in manufacturing and a tail-end-charlie in adoption of GNU/Linux on the desktop.For example, I use the Lightning calendar extension for Thunderbird and a Google extension to keep my calendar synchronized on multiple devices. I have added a few plugins to each to expand their capabilities to better meet my personal and business needs. Thunderbird and Firefox provide for email and Internet browsing, respectively. I use LibreOffice Calc for creating invoices, LibreOffice Impress for presentations, and GnuCash for my personal and business accounting needs. I use LibreOffice Writer for writing documents like this article and the class lab projects, and I also keep records of the work I do for my customers sort of a log of my activities. I also use Centos and, to a lesser extent, Fedora for teaching the classes I have written myself for the training portion of my business. I have tried other distributions, but I prefer the Red Hat related ones because I started out with Red Hat 17 years ago, and I worked as a trainer for Red Hat for a while. I generally use Centos for servers and firewalls. My favorite distributions are Fedora for my main workstation, laptop, and netbook.
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